There’s a unique sense of intrigue that surrounds every new Fumito Ueda project. Familiar, yet exciting. A promise of a connection between character and player that few others can forge. But the Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian creator is moving away from his fantasy worlds with Gen Atlas, shifting to a land of sci-fi where giant robots lie strewn across its shores, waiting…
Mario Kart World 'Forgotten,' as Nintendo Switch 2 Launch Title Goes a Year Without Major DLC
June 12, 2026
Nintendo fans have reacted in despair at the lack of updates to Mario Kart World, following this week’s big Nintendo Direct broadcast.
While DLC and expansions were confirmed for other hit Switch 2 games, such as Donkey Kong Bananza and Pokémon Pokopia, Nintendo once…
Star Trek: Shadow Frontier — Paramount Says 'The Goal Is for Bloober to Make the Best Star Trek Game of All Time'
June 12, 2026
Revealed exclusively at IGN Live, Star Trek: Shadow Frontier is the surprise upcoming game from Bloober Team, the developer of the critically and commercially acclaimed Silent Hill 2 remake, and Cronos: The New Dawn. It stars Michelle Forbes, who reprises her role as Trek…
‘We Wanted To Match the Original and Go Beyond’ - Alien: Isolation 2’s Director on Improving a Survivor Horror Icon
June 11, 2026
If you read any account of the original Alien: Isolation’s development process, at some point there’s always mention of how Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece was playing on a constant loop in Creative Assembly’s offices. When I stepped into those same offices a couple of weeks ago to go hands-on with the long-anticipated sequel, the first thing to greet me was a massive TV mid-way through a…
Earlier in 2026, Sony shut down Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the fantastic Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes. In an interview with IGN, Fumito Ueda, the original creator of Shadow of the Colossus, expressed his sadness at Bluepoint’s demise…
Look, dinosaurs are objectively cool. I don’t make the rules. When four-year-old me got a dinosaur cast, everyone was jealous. Why couldn’t they have a cool dinosaur-patterned arm, like me, the brave little girl who courageously tripped over playground equipment so…
As a rabid consumer of roguelites and roguelikes and having just recently beat Vampire Crawlers, I’m always on the look out for my next “number go up” fix. Blood Dungeon, from Messhof, seems like it’ll scratch that itch while providing a new challenge I haven’t quite experienced frequently in the genre: platforming.
Co-founder of Messhof Mark Essen describes Blood Dungeon as a 2D…
Final Fantasy Resonance: We Played the First Turn-Based HD-2D FF Game | IGN Exclusive Preview
June 10, 2026
A turn-based HD-2D Final Fantasy, huh. It’s hard to believe it’s real. As someone who grew up on old-school Final Fantasy games and JRPGs, it’s also hard to believe I was able to play Final Fantasy Resonance for about three hours at Square Enix as part of an IGN…
Rollcage Successor Grip Returns With Sequel, Grip XR
June 10, 2026
Developer Caged Element has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its planned Grip: Combat Racing sequel, Grip XR. A demo for the game is available to download now on Steam.
A scorchingly fast combat racer, Grip: Combat Racing and Grip XR are spiritual successors to the…
Amazon Still Wants to Make a Lord of the Rings Game Despite Canceling the MMO It Was Working On
June 9, 2026
Amazon says it still wants to make a game set in J. R. R. Tolkien’s fantasy universe despite canceling a Lord of the Rings MMO it had in development.
Earlier this year it was reported that Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings MMO was dead, but with a sliver of hope that the company would still eventually release some sort of Lord of the Rings game in the future. Amazon issued a statement at the…
